


An interesting aspect of the board is its novel SPI bus design that allows all the onboard peripherals to be accessed with a single SPI bus (3 signals) along with chip-select logic (2 signals) that supports up to 8 devices in total.


Parallax has released their Propeller C3 application board.įeatures include: Multicore Propeller P8X32A-Q44 with 5.00 MHz socketed crystal to upgrade for over-clocking experiments, 64 KB Propeller boot EEPROM holds boot image plus 32 KB extra for data, USB or external power sources, dual high-current filtered 1.5 A 3.3/5 V voltage regulators, VGA port, RCA Video/Audio ports for NTSC/PAL composite video, PS/2 port for keyboard or mouse, 1 MB SPI FLASH memory, 2-channel Microchip MCP3202 SPI A/D converter with 12-bit resolution, (2) Microchip 32K x 8 bit SPI SRAMs, MicroSD card w/SPI interface, 2 x 16 headers exporting IO and system signals, servo headers. Posted by Ian JanuPosted in app notes Tags: F2806x, Piccolo MCUs 4 Comments on C2000 Piccolo: F2806x MCU Glimpse of a new pointing device The controlSTICK is currently out of stock, but if you want one then perhaps the promo code will still work if you order now. Dev-boards are $11 with promo code Piccolo11.Learn more about the new Piccolo devices.Increased memory range of 52 – 100KB RAM and 128 – 256 KB flash.Achieve leading efficiency and functionality with cutting-edge math unit.Developers of energy-efficient motor control and renewable energy applications can now use a single F2806x MCU to cost-effectively execute control loops and multiple processing-intensive power line communications (PLC) protocols and modulation schemes. Rsdio tipped us to the floating-point Piccolo MCUs from Texas Instruments:Ĭ2000™ Piccolo MCUs offer an enhanced math engine specifically designed to simplify programming and optimize performance in real-time control applications that may require integrated communications.
